Key themes in North American gerontological research...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Issue In recent years the field of gerontechnology has expanded rapidly, bringing about the development of new technologies to facilitate ageing-in-place1-4. Alongside this technological development, there is a need to consider the broader impacts of the application of this technology on the end use...
| Published in: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 130 |
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